V
Victoria
I would appreciate advice. I am very new to computers and
can't figure this out! I recently received a Dell
Inspiron 5100 laptop. Since I only have a dial-up
connection and I want to use this in a room where there is
no telephone jack, I needed a long phone cord to connect
the laptop to the phone jack. I attached the 50' cord to
the laptop last week and all went fine connecting to the
Internet. However, I cannot seem to make the connection
again. I enter the password and it dials (pulse!), and
the box says "connected to remote computer",
then "verifying name and password", then finally "unable
to establish a connection". I thought that it may be the
length of the cord, so I used the cord that the laptop
came with. Same result. Then I moved to another phone
jack in another room. No luck again. Then, to make
certain that it wasn't my ISP, I turned on my desktop
computer and easily accessed the internet using the same
info (dial-up number, etc.). Can anyone tell me what may
be the problem with connecting my laptop to the internet?
As I said before, I did it last week and it connected
witout a problem (same settings, etc.). As I am quite new
to this, could anyone please help? Thanks!
can't figure this out! I recently received a Dell
Inspiron 5100 laptop. Since I only have a dial-up
connection and I want to use this in a room where there is
no telephone jack, I needed a long phone cord to connect
the laptop to the phone jack. I attached the 50' cord to
the laptop last week and all went fine connecting to the
Internet. However, I cannot seem to make the connection
again. I enter the password and it dials (pulse!), and
the box says "connected to remote computer",
then "verifying name and password", then finally "unable
to establish a connection". I thought that it may be the
length of the cord, so I used the cord that the laptop
came with. Same result. Then I moved to another phone
jack in another room. No luck again. Then, to make
certain that it wasn't my ISP, I turned on my desktop
computer and easily accessed the internet using the same
info (dial-up number, etc.). Can anyone tell me what may
be the problem with connecting my laptop to the internet?
As I said before, I did it last week and it connected
witout a problem (same settings, etc.). As I am quite new
to this, could anyone please help? Thanks!